Quotes About Human rights

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

All men are born equally free.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

We ask to be recognized as men.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from a Georgia prison, after serving four years of hard labor for speaking out against the mistreatment of Cherokee Indians.

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.